About Timur Bekmambetov
Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov is a Kazakh-Russian filmmaker and tech entrepreneur. He is best known for the fantasy epic Night Watch (2004), the action thriller Wanted (2008), and the historical horror film Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), as well as for the screenlife films Unfriended (2015), Searching (2018), Profile (2018), and War of the Worlds (2025). The sequel to Night Watch, Day Watch (2006), was likewise written and directed by Bekmambetov and set a new record for the Russian domestic box office, having grossed more than $26 million in the first two weeks. Bekmambetov's Hollywood directorial debut was Universal's action thriller Wanted (2008), an adaptation of the graphic novel series created by Mark Millar and J. In 1994, he founded Bazelevs, an advertising and film production company, in Russia. The film was the first Russian production which, after the demise of the Soviet Union, managed to top the domestic box office, making $16.7 million in Russia alone, thus overtaking The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
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